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I really enjoyed this, I felt it was a fitting sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. It might not have answered every question, and it took some time to get used to the 15 year gap, but overall I think it was necessary and very well done. ( ) It’s definitely not what I was expecting. I’d call it a thriller, while I was expecting more literary fiction. The only previous Atwood I’ve read is The Blind Assassin, which I recall was much more complexly and richly written. Also the tone isn’t all THAT grim, like I figured it would be, despite the sort of society we’re talking about here. I mean, there’s multiple penis jokes in here, y’all! The primary bad guy, Commander Judd, as physically described by Atwood resembles Santa Claus, if Santa took a really bad turn down the road of totalitarian patriarchy (don’t do it, Santa!). An image of a demented Santa, for me, brings an air of the ridiculous to the proceedings. One of Judd’s characteristics is that he’s only interested in teenage girls: marry one, go a few years, kill her, repeat. Horrible but treated with a touch of the slapstick by Atwood (“rat poison? It’s so easily detectable,” the central character and antihero Aunt Lydia muses. Very sloppy indeed, Santa, tsk tsk). On the positive side, it’s well paced, and kept me turning the pages. It flew by for being a 400 page novel in the hands of a slow reader. Aunt Lydia is the sort of Machiavellian character it’s enjoyable to encounter in fiction (if only we could keep them all there). I appreciated how it agreed with Nabokov’s take on totalitarianism: that it is marked more by the ineptness and buffoonery of those in power than by any impressive calculating evil. I get the sense, reinforced by Atwood’s acknowledgements here, this was written for the entertainment of people who have enjoyed (is that the right word?) The Handmaid’s Tale in its written and televised formats, and not so much because this was a novel that was demanding to be written, so to speak. It exists because there was an eager market for it that didn’t call for it to be exceedingly “literary”. Which is fine. Sometimes life mirrors art the way Americans have become politically polarised I feel that the Union will break up as they descend into a new civil war. Some States in the South where the religious fervour is still strong could easily slip into a theocratic government as envisioned by Attwood and only time will tell if her books are precognitive.
Agency and strength, Atwood seems to be suggesting, do not require a heroine with the visionary gifts of Joan of Arc, or the ninja skills of a Katniss Everdeen or Lisbeth Salander — there are other ways of defying tyranny, participating in the resistance or helping ensure the truth of the historical record. The very act of writing or recording one’s experiences, Atwood argues, is “an act of hope.” Like messages placed in bottles tossed into the sea, witness testimonies count on someone, somewhere, being there to read their words [...] Ingår iHar bearbetningenHar som kommentar till textenPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Vinnare av Bookerpriset 2019! I slutscenen av Tjänarinnans berättelse stiger Offred in i skåpbilen efter att ha anklagats av Anföraren och hans hustru. Vart hon förs vet ingen. I sin alldeles nyskrivna fortsättning på Tjänarinnans berättelse, Gileads döttrar, kommer Margaret Atwood förmodligen att avslöja vad som hände med Offred. Så här säger hon i ett pressmeddelande: "Kära bokläsare. Allt ni frågat mig om Gilead och hur den världen är uppbyggd har tjänat som inspiration för denna roman. Fast inte bara. Den andra inspirationskällan är den värld vi lever i idag." Sedan Tjänarinnas berättelse gavs ut 1985 har Atwoods framtidsvision bara ökat i betydelse och givit upphov till kvinnors protester över hela världen, inte minst efter valet av Donald Trump till Amerikas president. Romanen fick också nytt liv genom den prisbelönade och populärar tv-serien The Handmaid's Tale med Elisabeth Moss i huvudrollen. Gileads döttrar utspelas femton år efter Tjänarinnans berättelse och utgår från tre andra kvinnor som berättar om sina liv i den kristna fundamentalistiska staten Gilead. Boken ges ut samtidigt som det engelska originalet. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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